# transverse
## English
### Etymology

Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.

### Pronunciation

* (adjective, verb):
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹanzˈvɜːs/, /tɹɑːnzˈvɜːs/, /tɹansˈvɜːs/, /tɹɑːnsˈvɜːs/
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** (General American) IPA: /tɹænsˈvɝs/, /tɹænzˈvɝs/, (sometimes) /ˈtɹænsˌvɝs/, /ˈtɹænzˌvɝs/ (like the noun)
* (noun):
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɹanz.vɜːs/, /ˈtɹɑːnz.vɜːs/, /ˈtɹans.vɜːs/, /ˈtɹɑːns.vɜːs/
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** (General American) IPA: /ˈtɹænsˌvɝs/, /ˈtɹænzˌvɝs/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

### Adjective

transverse (not comparable)
* Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
    Antonym: longitudinal
** 1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
** 2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
* (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
* (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see w:Transversality (mathematics)#Definition.)
* (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

#### Derived terms

* costotransverse
* intertransverse
* nontransverse
* obliquotransverse
* occipitotransverse
* pretransverse
* sacrotransverse
* subtransverse
* transverse cervical artery
* transverse colon
* transverse facial artery
* transverse flow effect
* transverse flute
* transversely
* transverseness
* transverse plane
* transverse process
* transverse relaxation time
* transverse sinus
* transverse tubule
* transverse wave
* transversity
* transverso-, transvers-

#### Related terms

* transversal
* transversion

#### Translations
### Noun

transverse (plural transverses)
* Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
* (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

#### Translations
### Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)
* To lie or run across; to cross.
* To traverse or thwart.
* To overturn.
** 1702, Charles Leslie, The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificate Stated‎, page 226:And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
* To alter or transform.
** 1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel‎, page 68:In love, it is said, all stratagems are fair, and many little ladies transverse the axiom by applying it to discover the secrets of their friends.
* (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
** 1671, George Villiers, The Rehearsal‎, published 1770, act 1, scene 1, page 12:Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.

### References

* “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “transverse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## French
### Adjective

transverse (plural transverses)
* transverse

### Further reading

* “transverse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From trānsversus (“turned across”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

#### Alternative forms

* trānsvorsē

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /transˈu̯er.seː/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /transˈver.se/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrse]

#### Adverb

trānsversē (comparative trānsversius, superlative trānsversissimē)
* crosswise, transversely, obliquely
    Synonym: trānsversim
** c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 9.8.7:In columella horae ex analemmatos transverse describantur, menstruaeque lineae columella signentur.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /transˈu̯er.se/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /transˈver.se/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrse]

#### Participle

trānsverse
* vocative masculine singular of trānsversus

### References

* “transverse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.